MAYBE THEY WENT TO THE WRONG COUNTIES

Two Miami Herald reporters spent part of the past week counting ballots in three rural north Florida counties which, although registrations are heavily Democrat, supported Bush by a large margin. All use optical scan balloting which has a paper trail, and are the heart of an ongoing controveresy. But according to the Herald reporters, but counts seemed to be accurate. There were minor glitches in south Florida as well, but nothing to apparantly show major flaws in the system.

It's time to say that we as Democrats did an overall good job, but it simply wasn't good enough to overcome our opponent's efforts. We have to begin looking forward to the 2006 Congressional and state races, and that means --- first and foremost --- recruiting quality candidates NOW to get the electorate familiar with them and begin challenging the Republican record of so-called "compassionate conservatism".